Comments on: Transferring Text Messages (SMS) from Nokia to Android

By: Volker

Volker — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:51:16 +0000

Had the same issue. Solved it also with swapping “Sent = ” and “DateTime = “.

Gammu version is 1.28.0

Thanks for pointing this process out. Great to get this done with Opensource-Tools and no hassels!

By: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel

Thilo-Alexander Ginkel — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:33:05 +0000

Regarding the gammu file format change: Which gammu version are you using?

By: Stig Inge

Stig Inge — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:04:19 +0000

Thanks for bringing the link back up again.

The script worked for me, but the XML files didn’t contain the date and time before I replaced the following line in sms-gammu2android:

if (/^Sent = (.*)/) {

with

if (/^DateTime = (.*)/) {

By: Stig Inge

Stig Inge — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:39:27 +0000

Hi and tanks for this post.

I’m stuck at the point of running sms-gammu2android because the link http://thilo.ginkel.com/archive/sms-gammu2android-0.1.tar.gz is dead.

Could you please help?

Thank you.

By: Frits

Frits — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:59:04 +0000

Please can you include a gammu extracted sample file for comparison?

By: Frits

Frits — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:57:49 +0000

Hi, thanks for the post. I am almost there.

I cannot get gammu to work with Micro USB cable on Nokia 6700 Classic, but have Noki that can extract from NBU file to vmg files.

I am a developer and can probably write a utility to convert vmg files to xml files for the SMSBackupRestore android application.

I am just wondering what format the date is in, and how to convert a normal date time value to it.

Thanks.

By: AQ

AQ — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:10:05 +0000

HI Thilo u said this:

\Well, instead of running the script standalone, you will have to explicitly run it using the python executable:

Open a command prompt, make sure python is in the path and sms.txt is your SMS export located in the current directory. Then, run:
python MsgExport2SMSBackupRestore.pys sms.xml\

But i dont have a clue how to run or get python in path.
whatever i do it says incorrect syntax or something.
please give me a step to step guide or i can sent you my txt file and you convert pls??

ANYONE ELSE ALSO PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks

By: Saad

Saad — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:43:55 +0000

Hi,

This seems like a really great job. Unfortunately, I haven’t been successful yet,

I have a 6300, but I cannot connect neither via bluetooth nor USB. Since yo uhad the same phone, could you please share the connection settings?

Thanks !!

By: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel

Thilo-Alexander Ginkel — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:04:50 +0000

Yes, it will show the senders’ names if they are in your contacts list.

By: Eddie Teo

Eddie Teo — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:06:42 +0000

Hi,

Once the transfer is done, will it show the sender’s names?

This is kind of critical to me and is stopping me and sticking with Nokia (I cant believe they forget there are big finger users out there in the world!) and swapping to others.

Thanks in advance.